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Carrie Prejean isn't the only Christian contestant using the contest as a platform for her beliefs—or who has faced questions about compromising them.

Mandy E. McMichael | posted 6/17/2009 09:19AM

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Mandy E. McMichael is a Ph.D. candidate in religion at Duke University. Her dissertation is on religion and beauty pageants in the South.

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Her.menutics, Christianity Today's women's blog, has had several posts on Prejean:

Donald Trump Says Miss California Can Keep the Crown | But will conservative Christians continue to put her on a pedestal? (May 12)

Miss CA Becomes Ad Spokeswoman for Traditional Marriage | Meanwhile, two pageant directors say they paid for Prejean's breast implants weeks before Miss USA. (May 1)

The Other Miss California Controversy | Carrie Prejean might have stood up for Christian sexual ethics by skipping the Miss USA pageant altogether. (April 24)

In 2003, Christianity Today sister publication Today's Christian looked at why so many Christians are attracted to the Miss America contest.

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David Hardy

Posted: June 30, 2009 7:52 PM

How many who have been quick to criticize Miss Prejean have even personally witnessed to a total stranger? Much less millions of them?... All at once?... Knowing that the answer you are about to give is going to be less than well received by the one who asked you the question? And that your non-politically correct answer would probably cost you the one thing you had been working towards for a very long time? How many here have quit a job over faith based issues? How many here have stood up to ridicule for their beliefs? Name me one of the giants of the Bible who didn't have feet of clay... Adam sinned in the garden.. Abraham lied about Sarah... Moses smote the rock... David murdered Uriah... Peter denied Jesus... Get real folks... If the cannon was pointed at you would you choke? Carrie Prejean didn't.... And guess what... She has feet of clay too... .

John	Posted: June 24, 2009 2:51 PM


I like that people are pretending that she was stripped of her crown because of her interview. She lost her crown because she lied. She said that she had never posed for nude or semi nude photographs, and she had. That's a plain simple lie. Where are the family values voters here?

Gary Gilmore

Posted: June 22, 2009 11:18 AM

Also don't assume that everyone who doesn't agree with you is a "homosexual activist trolling a website launching vicious attacks". It is sad that the Christian media, (not necessarily CT) and public Christian figures started making this gal some kind of saint. Her answers in interviews that weren't "set up" were horrible. She did not defend her faith well at all. And certainly these half naked exposing the side of her breasts pictures werer not by any means a good personal witness if she was gonna become a "public Christian figure". I don't mean to disparage her. She was dropped into a situation that was bizarre. But for Dobson or anybody else to lift her up as some sweet young virtuos(sp?) woman, who is protecting God's intention for marriage, is going way way to far. I hope we can do better then that! woman and p

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